Background
Allison was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and moved to Lubbock with his family shortly after tornadoes devastated Lubbock on May 11, 1970.
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Don Allison
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He graduated from Coronado High School and attended Texas Technical University. He graduated from South Plains College, a community college in Levelland, Texas.
Career
He sang on Music Television and performed at the Cactus Theater in Lubbock in such productions as Jesus Christ Superstar and Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, the saga of the Lubbock rock and roll legend Buddy Holly. At the time of his death, Allison was employed by GrantWorks, Incorporated., in Lubbock, a planning, housing, and community development service for rural Texas since 1979. By the late 1970s, Allison had formed his own rock and roll band called "Impeccable" and thereafter joined The Nelsons, organized by guitarist John Sprott.
He became the lead singer for the P. J. Belly Blues Band, which performed at the since defunct Lubbock blues club known as "Belly"son" He also created the doo wop group, The Juris Doctor"s, which performs at the Cactus Theater.
During his musical career, Allison went from being "a long-haired rocker to a short-haired cowhand."
Toby Caldwell, a former sound engineer at the Cactus Theater, located on Buddy Holly Avenue near the old-style rock and roll radio station KDAV, said, "Donnie was always very particular about what he wanted to hear in the monitor" and was constantly striving for improvement." Caldwell told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that Allison"s "gentle but definite guidance in running sound, playing music, directing a band or production, and in living life through adversity, will stay with me for the rest of my life."
Allison died at the age of forty-nine of a four-year battle with cancer at a Lubbock hospice. He was cremated.
